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Stick it up your jumper you old fogey !

Graham

Oh, COME ON, Graham. Get with the program. It has nothing to do with
the scholarly history of the music or its pretentions to such.

Unaccompanied voice is one of the very few possible sources that has
even the smallest chance of sounding remotely passable on a SET driven,
single-driver system. Hence its quickly acquired "meaningful" status.
The last bit of "meaningful" music this accretion of unsupported
fantasies was touting was poorly recorded Gregorian Chant... another
stellar source for such systems.


As I was reading the above Allegri's Miserere was playing on the radio (SS
amp, Firewood Horn speakers) - a perfect example of what you are trying to
describe, I think. How's that for a coincidence? (In reality, one of the
pieces that is thrashed to death on Brit Classic FM radio, to the
continued/continuing exclusion of lesser-known works of equal quality....)

Which leads me to make this observation - I don't believe for a moment
SET/Horn setups only do 'vocal'. If that was the case I'd have no use for
them! A perfect example - earlier on I was listening to an unusal Polish
recording of Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No. 1 by Zachar Bron ('Muza'
label - SX 1536).

I had played it last night and needed to hear it again today (as you do) and
was wracked with the incredible *sweetness* of it and thought how sad it was
that many people are never going to get to hear it, or at least, not like I
was hearing it....??

I dunno. Must be me, I must be going deaf...???